@Branthog: You're not cancelling your credit card, your getting a new number (like changing your telephone number because of harassing calls). The balance transfers to the new number but the account stays the same and it doesn't effect your credit score at all.
@Fallen189: Your post is so true, it's amazing how many Videogame "Journalists" are also experts on cyber crime investigations. You go to a website like N4G.com and every story is a rumor about the PSN outage, but very few have any hard facts. You print a rumor 10 times and print a retraction once (or never).
You have journalists calling into customer service and painting their response as a statement from the CEO of the company. Lets take Patrick Klepek for example and the following statement,
"Update 2: Regarding rumors Sony may have notified banks days ahead of disclosing today's revelations to the public, I have since contacted customer service representatives at both Bank of America and Chase. I personally have accounts at both financial firms and the representatives claimed to have received no information from Sony about a mass breach of credit information."
Which level of customer service did he talk to. Was it a manager, public relations official, or did he just call the phone number on the back of his credit card. Did he call into customer service several times to verify the information he was hearing was reliable from rep to rep. From my experience the people working the phones are the last to know (and it's not their fault).
The way Information is being gathered on videogame news sites has to be way more clear to be taken seriously. People have been clamoring for more info from Sony about this situation to find out what has actually happened (which is totally justified) but maybe we should be asking for more information from the people delivering the news on the methods being employed to cover this fiasco.
You'll notice they updated the article later and info was not stored in .txt file format. They also confirmed that Sony was using a secure SSL connection for transactions.
Investigations take time, and shutting down the network until all information has been gathered is the best thing they could have done in a shitty situation. It sucks that people can't play online, but a crime has been committed and criminal investigations take time.
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